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President Nixon, in an interview published in this month's Reader's Digest, suggested that he would prefer to leave political questions for the South Vietnamese to settle after a cease-fire agreement and the completion of the release of U.S. prisoners and of the withdrawal of U.S. troops...
...Reader's Digest has never actually printed an article titled "New Hope for the Dead," but probably not for want of trying. For 50 years the Digest has taught Americans how to cope with everything from brakeman's headache to athlete's foot, and this preoccupation continues today with a series of first-person articles-told by the body's organs. One of the latest: "I Am Joe's Prostate...
...Digest's concern goes far beyond medicine, but it somehow sees the world in related terms. Various cancers and infections are represented by Communism, bureaucrats, radicals and the welfare state; the healing antibodies are the traditional American virtues and verities. Perhaps it is the magazine's sanguine postulate that man can manage his destiny that has made it so resoundingly popular. Brevity, of course, is its other asset. Its assumption that even War and Peace could be cut to a few hours' reading brought sneers from the sophisticated, but the formula has proved useful and durable...
...celebrate the Digest's anniversary last week, President and Mrs. Nixon gave a white-tie dinner for 100 in the State Dining Room of the White House. The guests of honor were the Digest's formidable founders and cochairmen, DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila, both 82. Wallace, son of a Presbyterian minister, married Lila Acheson some months before publication of the first issue, which they launched with $1,800. Now, 50 years later, DeWitt and Lila Wallace are probably still the most unforgettable characters either of them has ever...
...prospects of 3,250 separate stocks (TIME, Sept. 13). Targeted for a circulation of 10,000, it was selling only 2,500, mostly to stock market professionals. "We weren't getting any growth," laments Media General President Alan Donnahoe. "It was too much of an encyclopedia to digest every day." In hopes of better times, however, Donnahoe will keep the word "daily" in his weekly's title. ¶ In his swearing-in speech last week, Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo called for "an old-fashioned quest for jobs." His Honor has already delivered on that promise...